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[jiminy]

A3000 on Ebay

I really can't buy another A3000.

Can I?

Want to guess how much this one will go for?  I'm going to say  $715.

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Darrin wrote:
Hmmm... I'm guessing around $200.

If that comes true, I don't think I'm gonna be able to resist.

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Like I said, at $200 it would be mine.  But though I have only been doing this a little while, I haven't seen a fully working A3000D with no apparent or suspected motherboard damage go for less than $300.  Maybe my 1st guess is a little high, but I'll be shocked if this doesn't break $400.

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adolescent wrote:
I'd say <$200.  If it was a 25MHz model then $800+ for sure!   :lol:

Whoops!  I didn't realize it was a 16mhz model.  Good eye... gonna have to revise my guess

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McVenco wrote:

jiminy wrote:

Want to guess how much this one will go for?  I'm going to say  $715.

For half that price you can have my spare A3000 :-)

Heh, I did pay about that for an A3000 with all the ram stripped, no keyboard etc.  which turned out to have flaky video and SCSI.  But I am wiser now.  Not much, but a little.

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A6000 wrote:
I cannot see anywhere in the ebay page where it says the processor runs at 16mhz, but how much rarer are 16mhz machines, this could affect the price.

The sharp-eyed Amigan, which I am not (but getting better) realizes that the 68881 fpu means 16mhz 68030.  The 25mhz came with a 68882.

Really if you are going to use a processor accelerator anyway, it doesn't matter if it's 16mhz does it?  No other differences?

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The only flaky thing about my spare A3000 is the 1.4 ROM. The rest is just fine - SCSI and flickerfixer are working, there's 1MB Chip and 8MB Fast (ZIPs). Keyboard and mouse are a bit dirty but working

Well, I've got a working A3000 right now, which is what I was after.  The only thing that would get me to pay that price again is perfect cosmetics and operation, never any battery leakage.  Or if mine quits... :-P

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Darrin wrote:

I bought it to expand, but the A3000 case just pissed me off so I ended up getting an ECS A2000 and expanded that instead.  The A3000 would have been perfect if they had just kept it in the A2000 case.

I wouldn't like the A3000 as much if it was in the A2000 case.  Aesthetically, it's the best looking Amiga to me.  But to each his own.  I might like the A2000 more if I had ever seen one with drives that matched the faceplate in color. :lol:

It's funny, I was just looking at the schematic manual for the A3000, and the very first line reads: "The A3000 is a cost reduced version of the A2500".  Huh? :crazy: